Jurgen stroop biography

Jürgen Stroop was a German SS commander during the Nazi era, who served as SS and Police Leader in occupied Poland and Greece from 1942-1943 (in Poland) and.
Jürgen Stroop was an SS general (German: Gruppenführer).
Jürgen Stroop was a German SS commander during the Nazi era, who served as SS and Police Leader in occupied Poland and Greece from 1942-1943 and 1943-1944 He was a SS-General from 1942-1945.

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Jurgen Stroop

Jurgen Stroop 4th from right � Warschau Umschlagplatz 1943

The son of a policeman, Josef Stroop, was born on 26 September 1895 in Detmold, Germany, but he later changed his name to Jurgen, in honour of his deceased son in 1941. During World War One Stroop served in several infantry regiments at the front and won an Iron Cross 2nd Class. He was also wounded in action. Stroop joined the SS on 1 July 1932 and received SS number 44611, he was admitted into the Nazi Party shortly thereafter on 1 September 1932. Stroop was promoted to SS-Hauptsturmf�hrer on 8 March 1934, to SS-Sturmbannf�hrer on 20 April 1935 and SS-Obersturmbannf�hrer on 20 April 1936.

During the 1930�s he attended various leadership courses and commanded several General SS units in Germany proper. He was promoted to SS-Standartenf�hrer on 12 September 1937 and to SS-Oberf�hrer on 10 September 1939. Stroop served in the Sudetenland, after the occupation of Poland in September 1939 Stroop was transferred to Poznan (Posen) as head of the German Selbschutz � self defence units of e

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Stroop was a trusted officer of Heinrich Himmler. After the outbreak of World War II, he participated in the murder of Poles and Jews in the Polish territories that were part of the Third Reich (the so-called Wartheland). Stroop’s efficient and effective work was recognised, and after Germany attacked the Soviet Union, he was sent to the East. As head of the SS and Police, he was a specialist in combating partisans, and worked in Ukraine and the Caucasus.

In the spring of 1943, he returned to Poland where he was directed to exterminate the Warsaw Ghetto. On April 19, an uprising broke out there, and Stroop was in charge of suppressing the Jewish revolt. During the pacification of the ghetto, he compiled daily reports, which he sent directly to Heinrich Himmler.

His documentation of the pacification was extremely conscientious, and the so-called “Stroop Report” included many photographs capturing the murder of the insurgents. In his report, Stroop wrote:

The course of the Great Action on 16 May 1943, 10 am. 180 Jews, bandits and subhumans were exterminated. T
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Description
The Jürgen Stroop statement consists of a 14-page handwritten statement prepared by Jürgen Stroop, an SS-Gruppenführer who led the effort to repress the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in 1943. The statement, dated 26 April 1946 in Wiesbaden, Germany, includes details about the preparation and military action to suppress the uprising.
Date
creation: 1946 April 26
Credit Line
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
Collection Creator
Jürgen Stroop
Biography
Jürgen Stroop (born Josef Stroop) was born on September 26, 1895 in Detmold, Germany to Konrad and Katherine Stroop. He joined the Nazi party in 1932 and served as a SS commander in occupied Poland. He was charged with overseeing suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 during which he ordered that the ghetto be systematically burned down and blown up, and the Jewish synagogue destroyed. All survivors of the uprising were either immediately killed or deported to extermination camps. After the war, he was prosecuted during the